I am a student and OneDrive is both incredibly helpful and incredibly aggrevating. I love that there is an app for OneDrive on the Mac App store. However, two things are clear. Firstly, It's not optimized for Apple Silicon. Rosetta 2 makes it work 98% of the time but it seems like updating and signing out and back into my Microsoft Account breaks OneDrive in ways that I feel like relate to the fact it hasn't been properly recomplied. A company as big as Microsoft should be able to put a team on that for a week and make it compatible for Apple Silicon. Additionally, it hasn't been updated for Monterey at the time of this writing. When I updated to Monterey and opened OneDrive, some very important files of mine were telling me they were corrupted and I had a small panic attack trying to make copies of them and upload them again. I think everything has been saved but how can teams of 3 developers make their apps prepped for Monterey weeks before Microsoft can? Look, when OneDrive works, it works really well and I actually enjoy using it. When it doesn't work however, it's anxiety provoking and makes me want to tear my hair out.

The user experience with this application is so 'blah' it's not even funny. The first few iterations of OneDrive were barely passable as a sync tool for SharePoint. With all the rave reviews on this application I'm really curious what horrible software people live with that makes this look good. The user experience of other applications like DropBox is very good and well integrated with the OS. As an example a simple right-click and you have a link to email off to someone as a one-time access or direct link if it is shared. OneDrive has no concept of a file repository with a local synced copy. It is simply a basic file sync tool for the fledgeling SharePoint experience. I'm sure if you don't use SharePoint in a corporate environment and use OneDrive to sync your local Micro$soft application documents it's a beautiful thing. However, in the corporate setting where we are basically forced to use SharePoint this tool does nothing more than get a local copy on your computer without any other interaction which is pitiful. Add to the list is the "processing" message that doesn't go away after you open the app along with no "pause" button. It's really the simple things that matter with user experience and I know M$ doesn't make any money licensing OneDrive so it will undoutably remain pitifully featuerd behind its peers.

I am disappointed and frustrated by the last two updates. OneDrive had been working well for me for 6 months in syncing work files between my work computer and my home computer. Recently, after updating the OneDrive app at home, the update prompted me to sign into my organization again, but it couldn’t “locate” a place to sync my files. Basically, it couldn’t detect that I already had OneDrive installed and was trying to create a OneDrive folder again. It wouldn’t sync my existing folders, and instead gave me a repeated error message (“Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected: Try a different location. Make sure that the location isn't on a removable drive, or on a disk that has a case-sensitive format”). The first time that this happened, I managed to work around it by force-quitting OneDrive, uninstalling it, wiping the existing local OneDrive folder on my home computer, and then reinstalling OneDrive as though setting it up on a new computer. That may have been a fluke because a few months later, I encountered the same problem with a new update. I’ve been going through the same process—and it’s not working.In short, I’m unable to use OneDrive on my home Mac. It’s currently useless to me, and my only recourse now is to migrate content to another cloud service. I reported this to Support the first time. I’m going to report it again. One star.

I had been having no problems with OneDrive for years. I have it installed on my iMac, iPad, and iPhone so I can have the files on all of them and any work done on one appears on all. Since I have retired, I have not been using it as much, but recently I needed a document that I had put in my Personal Vault. I went to OneDrive on my iPad and there was no Personal Vault. I logged out and logged back in and got the message that my subscription had expired almost a year ago. I know that isn't true and I use OneNote regularly without any subscription issues. So I went to my iMac and used the little icon on the menu bar to go online, still no luck. So I used Safari and logged in online (no issues with subscription when I did this), went to OneDrive and there was my Personal Vault, thank goodness because I had things in there I need. But wait, half of the files were either corrupted or I got a message that I did not have permission to open them. I tried to download them to my computer so I could at least have them in one place. When I tried to open them on my computer the same issues arouse. I could only open about half of them. Needless to say, I wiill not trust this service with my documents anymore. If I weren't so heavily invested in OneNote with recipes and such, I would dump it completely. And I did try to download some of my OneNote files just to see if I could switch to something else. The PDF formating was so jumbled as to make them next to useless. Oh, and if there little help bot can't help, which it couldn't, I could find no way to actually get help from a person.